Radio Parade of 1935

Radio Parade of 1935
Directed by	Arthur B. Woods
Produced by	Walter C. Mycroft
Written by	Paul Perez
Starring	Will Hay Helen Chandler Clifford Mollison Davy Burnaby Alfred Drayton
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	Cyril Bristow Phil Grindrod
Edited by	Edward B. Jarvis
Production company	British International Pictures
Distributed by	Wardour Films
Release dates	1934 (1934)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), released in the US as Radio Follies, is a British comedy film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Will Hay, Clifford Mollison and Helen Chandler.

Plot

The film tells the story of the sophisticated Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (Will Hay) who promotes the ambitious Head of Complaints to Programmer Director (Clifford Mollison) in an attempt to stem the number of complaints he is receiving owing to the station's overly intellectual programming. In 1930's British slang, the acronym "NBG" stood for "no bloody good". The character played by Hay is clearly intended to be a satirical parody of Lord Reith, and the NBG the BBC.

Cast

• Will Hay as DG.William Garlon/Garland^[1]
• Helen Chandler as Joan Garland
• Clifford Mollison as Jimmy Clare
• Davy Burnaby as Sir Frederick Fotheringhay
• Lily Morris & Nellie Wallace as Charladies
• The Western Brothers as Announcers
• Alfred Drayton as Carl Graham
• Gerry Fitzgerald & Arthur Young as Window Cleaners
• Claude Dampier as Piano Tuner
• Robert Nainby as Col. Featherstone Haugh Haugh
• Hugh E.Wright as Algernon Bird
• Jimmy Godden as Vere de V. de Vere
• Basil Foster as Capt.Esne St J. Entwistle
• Ivor McLaren as Eric Lyttle-Lyttle

Production background and preservation status

Two sequences in the film were filmed in Dufaycolor. The film is extant.

See also

• List of early color feature films

References

External links

• Radio Parade of 1935 at the Internet Movie Database